I heard a really great story today about a blind mole.

Well… actually… it isn’t about a blind mole.  There is a blind mole in the story….. only one line really.  Have you ever had a good look at a mole?  They are very interesting little characters.  Very awesome looking.

Do you know what their butts smell like?  I have been told they  smell similar to pancakes. Like molasses.

But I am off track again dang it.

This particular story is one I heard from and old Sioux Indian.  The blind mole story.

Here is sort of how it goes.

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The Great Creator gathered all of Creation and said, “I want to hide something from the humans until they are ready for it. It is the realization that they create their own reality.”

(Let’s call the old Great Creator… “Howard” to make this story go faster.  Okay.  Back to the story.)

“Where do you think I should hide it,” old Howard said.

The eagle said, “Give it to me, I will take it to the moon.” Howard replied, “No. One day they will go there and find it.”

The salmon said, “I will bury it on the bottom of the ocean.” “No. They will go there too.” The buffalo said, “I will bury it on the Great Plains.” Howard again responded, “They will cut into the skin of the Earth and find it even there.”

And then…. then, then, then….. Grandmother Mole, who lives in the breast of Mother Earth, and who has no physical eyes but sees with spiritual eyes, said quietly…..

“Put it inside of them.”

And Howard, the Great Creator said, “It is done.”

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Oh.   What a great story.  Thanks Sioux People.

And what about that suggestion….  the realization that we create our own realities is hidden inside of us?

Hmmmmmmm.  It always goes back to the old story.  We either see the glass half empty, or we see it half full.  There are the 1/2 full-mavens that see the water as goodness, blessings, abundance.  Other Daryl-down-in-the-mouths…. see the part without water as “what is missing”… “the things we don’t have.”

But you know?  I think the glass is all the way full.  The part that doesn’t have water in it is filled with air.  Air is every bit as important as water.  We just don’t have a visualization of it.   The glass is filled all the way to the very top, then.  Yes, the contents reach the rim.  Two very different things… but both… in their own right… very important and good.    At least that is what I think.

There are lots of things in life we don’t see.  Our realizations, and our realities are our own.  They are shaped by who we are….   and each experience further defines who we become.

Sure enough.  That stinky blind mole really has it going on, I’ll tell you.

“Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one” – Albert “The Mole” Einstein